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In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe.

In features, one of the goals is to have the audience walk out, fully satisfied. In today's world, it's maybe wanting a sequel.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

In highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today.

In Hitchcock's movies you can see the storyboards and that's cool. It's nice to see a filmmaker be that prepared. Most filmmakers today have their heads up their ass, they're not nearly that prepared. He obviously had a right to say this is what I want and this is how we're doing it, because he was ready. Some filmmakers show up on the set and they don't know what they're doing. So then everyone has ideas and that makes a bad situation too. Be a director who's completely in control and yet no one knows it.

In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today.

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.

In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.

In my beginnings, those nos were ever-present-even today, those nos are ever-present-and it's the workaround. I always found a workaround for people who turned their back to me. It's a way of being persistent that makes them take notice.

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.

In much of the world today there are no more chilling words than "I'm from the United States and I'm here to help you.

In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead us back tomorrow to the situation of yesterday, the conquest of today must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must not be poor tomorrow.

In order to create art today, you have to compromise your art somewhat and be a businessman.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world.

Insatiable curiosity is infectious to everyone around you. We live in an era today where we can get the answers for everything. In my generation, going to school meant learning the answers. Today, education should be more about knowing what the right questions are. The answers come for free.

Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today.

Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science

In spite of the extraordinary outpouring of totally and partially new products and new ways of doing things that we are witnessing today, by far the greatest flow of newness is not innovation at all. Rather, it is imitation.

Inspiration, without action, is merely entertainment. ACT on your inspiration today!

Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

[International law] doesn't show what the Constitution originally meant, and it doesn't show what is fundamentally important to Americans today. It shows what's fundamentally important to somebody else today.

In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be heading down the nightmare that it is today.

Instead of hearing, "Oh, he's good," I'd rather hear, "Wow, you changed my feelings today, you made me feel different.

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

In terms of my lungs, pot smoking is not like cigarette smoking. It doesn't affect the lungs as quickly, or as much over time. If I stopped pot smoking today, my lungs could heal probably 100 percent in a few years.

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America. Nothing will ever be the same.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

International terrorists have proved quite skilled at misleading many people about what is actually happening here in the Caucasus, and they continue to mislead people today.

In the end, all worlds, whether they're set in the future or in New Jersey of today, are fictions. Sure, you don't got to do too much work to build a mundane world, but don't get it twisted: you still got to do some work.

In the desert we rediscover the value of what is essential for living; thus in today's world there are innumerable signs, often expressed implicitly or negatively, of the thirst for God, for the ultimate meaning of life. And in the desert people of faith are needed who, by the example of their own lives, point out the way to the Promised Land and keep hope alive.

In the end, the art of hunger can be described as an existential art. It is a way of looking death in the face, and by death I mean death as we live it today: without God, without hope of salvation. Death as the abrupt and absurd end of life

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will proceed until the hour of your death. If you were aware of how precious today is, you could hardly live through it. Unless you are aware of how precious it is, you can hardly be said to be living at all.

In the financial system we have today, with less risk concentrated in banks, the probability of systemic financial crises may be lower than in traditional bank-centered financial systems

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes.

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

In the olden times, privacy was good. Today people want to share, people are more open.

In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.

in the past, having a life while earning a living didn't seem like too much to ask. Today, even this basic goal has been redefined as 'having it all.

In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of 'victim thinking.' Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me.

In the old days, athletes got worked up about the strict rules - today they get worked up about these rules being ignored elsewhere.

In the old days, if a neighbors apples fell into your yard, you worked it out over the back fence or picked them up and made pies. Today, you sue.